University of Chicago Library

Guide to the James H. Moore Papers 1969-1983

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Special Collections Research Center
University of Chicago Library
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.

Abstract:

James H. Moore taught music at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1984. The Papers contains Moore's correspondence, lectures and articles, publications and musical editions related to scholarly research into Venetian music and culture, research notes, teaching materials, photocopies of sacred and secular sources for the study of seventeenth-century Venetian music, audio tapes, and musical scores.

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Biographical Note

James H. Moore was born in 1946 in Los Angeles. He received the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1976 and was Associate Professor of Music at the time of his death in 1984.

Moore was an accomplished musician as well as a scholar, playing baroque and modern violin, viola da gamba, and piano. His scholarly work, largely in the field of seventeenth-century Venetian sacred music, reflected this dual interest. His master's thesis, a study and critical edition of Marco da Galgiano's La Dafne, resulted in a recording on the ABC Command label. His Ph.D. dissertation, Vespers at St. Mark's: Music of Alessandro Grandi, Giovanni Rovetta and Francesco Cavalli (later published by UMI Press) included performing editions of vespers music of these three composers. Cavalli's Vespero della Beata Vergine was drawn from this edition and performed by the Clarion Music Society in New York and Italy, including a performance at St. Mark's in Venice. His article "The Vespero delli Cinque Laudate" (Journal of the American Musicological Society, 1981) resulted in Moore's preparing an edition of appropriate music for this special liturgical service as it might have been heard in the seventeenth century, also performed by the Clarion Music Society. Moore's scholarly work established him as an important authority on Venetian Music; his research in the archives of Venice did much to deepen the understanding of sacred music and liturgy at St. Mark's.

Scope Note

The papers of James H. Moore comprise 11 linear feet of material, including correspondence; publications and musical editions related to his scholarly research into Venetian music and culture; research notes; materials related to courses taught at the University of Chicago; photocopies of sacred and secular sources for the study of seventeenth-century Venetian music; audio tapes; and musical compositions. The papers are divided into seven series.

Series I: Biographical, includes notes taken while Moore was a student at UCLA; concert programs; professional correspondence, filed alphabetically; and materials from scholarly gatherings, also filed alphabetically. Topics reflected in the correspondence include discussions of the editions of music prepared by Moore for the Clarion Music Society of New York, as well as the actual transcriptions of the music performed for the Vesperi delli Cinque Laudate concert given by the Clarion Society (1:11-12), and material related to the publication of his dissertation by UMI Press.

Series II: Writings, contains typescripts of many of Moore's articles and lectures, as well as liner notes to recordings and program notes for concerts. Also included in this series are typescripts of papers by students and fellow scholars.

Series III: Research notes contains detailed notes from Moore's dissertation, Vespers at St. Mark's (7:6-9:2) and research notes from Italian archives and other libraries.

Series IV: Course materials, is a collection of class notes and syllabi from courses taught at the University of Chicago, arranged by course number.

Series V: Liturgical and Secular Sources, comprises a large collection of photocopies of various sources relating to the liturgy and sacred music of St. Mark's as well as copies of music prints of both sacred and secular music, mostly of the seventeenth century. Interfiled with the music prints are, in many cases, transcriptions of some of the individual compositions contained in the print.

Series VI: Audio Tapes, includes recordings of a performance of Cesti's Orontea from UCLA; the UCLA Faculty Collegium, in which Moore played; tapes of various performances of da Gagliano's La Dafne; and the Cavalli Vespers as performed by the Clarion Society.

Series VII: Musical Compositions contains two songs written by James Moore on texts by Carl Sandburg, and also two works by Paul Reale.

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Subject Headings

Moore, James Harold

Music-Instruction and study

Music-17th century

Music-Italy-Venice

Musicians

INVENTORY

Series I: Biographical

Subseries 1: Student Materials

Box 1 Folder 1

Concert programs and libretti, University of California at Los Angeles

Box 1 Folder 2

Student notes, UCLA, Gellner, Music 191

Box 1 Folder 3

Student notes, UCLA, Music 261E, Beethoven Performance Practice

Box 1 Folder 4

Student notes, UCLA

Hammond, Music 269

History of Western Musical Instruments, Fall 1971

Box 1 Folder 5

Photographs, library materials

Box 1 Folder 6

Curriculum vitae materials

Box 1 Folder 7

Concert programs, Collegium Musicum, University of Chicago

Subseries 2: Correspondence

Box 1 Folder 8

A-C, general

Box 1 Folder 9

American Council of Learned Societies

Box 1 Folder 10

American Musicological Society

Box 1 Folder 11-12

Clarion Concerts, Transcriptions of music used for "Vesperi delli Cinque Laudate" concert

Box 1 Folder 13

Clarion Concerts, New York concerts

Box 2 Folder 1

Clarion Concerts, Castelfranco concert series

Box 2 Folder 2

Jonathan Couchman

Box 2 Folder 3

D-L, general

Box 2 Folder 4

Frederick Hammond

Box 2 Folder 5

M-S, general

Box 2 Folder 6

Paul McCreesh

Box 2 Folder 7

Randy Mickelson

Box 2 Folder 8

Andrew Parrott

Box 2 Folder 9

U, general

Box 2 Folder 10

University Microfilms International Research Press

Box 2 Folder 11

W, general and unidentified

Subseries 3: Scholarly Gatherings

Box 2 Folder 12

American Musicological Association, New York City, 1979

Box 3 Folder 1

American Musicological Association, Boston, 1981

Box 3 Folder 2

American Musicological Association, Ann Arbor, 1982

Box 3 Folder 3

American Musicological Association, Midwest Chapter, September 1983

Box 3 Folder 4

International Frescobaldi Quadrocentenary Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 7-10 April 1983